Deeds Quote by Demosthenes Download Open image “Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.” — Demosthenes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Deeds Evil Men Tendencies Veils
It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblences to merit. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Success serves men as a pedestal. It makes them seem greater when not measured by reflection. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Success is not the measure of a man but a triumph over those who choose to hold him back. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Success gives the character of honesty to some classes of wickedness. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used to failing. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within. — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit… They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Success is like a lovely woman, wooed by many men, but folded in the arms of him alone who, free from over-zeal, firmly persists… — J. K. Bharavi Copy Share Image
As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be… — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots.… — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe. — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be… — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue. — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man… — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
Since we are not yet fully comfortable with the idea that people from the next village are as human as ourselves, it is presumptuous in the extreme to suppose we could ever look at sociable, tool-making creatures who are from other evolutionary paths and see not beasts, but brothers, not rivals, but fellow pilgrims journeying to the shrine of intelligence...The… — Demosthenes Copy Share
“Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each me wishes, that he also believes is true.” — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
It is impossible for men engaged in low and groveling pursuits to have noble and generous sentiments. A man's thought must always follow his… — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When Allah puts barakah (His blessings) in something, it will come beyond your expectations- never underestimate the power of one good deed. — Nouman Ali Khan Copy Share Image
Time often serves to justify a deed which seems at first unjustifiable. — Donald P. Ryan Copy Share Image
Somehow, what's in our hearts, good or bad is eventually translated into words and deeds. — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
Mechanical instruments, potentially a vehicle of rational human purposes, are scarcely a blessing when they enable the gossip of the village idiot and the… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Tis e'er the wont of simple folk to prize the deed and o'erlook the motive, and of learned folk to discount the deed and… — John Barth Copy Share Image
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done! — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A nation of character is filled with citizens who gradually build lives based on the living awareness that their deeds are judged by eyes… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
Alas, you don't need monsters for monstrous deeds to be accomplished. — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
